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Title:  "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and other stories of women's wartime labor.(Bodies of Writing, Bodies in Performance)

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Source:  Genders, Spring 1996 n23 p97(23).
                                                                            
Author:  Charles Hannon
                                                                             
 Abstract:  Working women became accepted in the US during the wartime years of the 1940s, but they were expected to relinquish their roles after the war. Popular magazines like Harper's Bazaar carried advertisements and stories consolidating the new gender roles, such as masculine clothes and jobs for women, with an emphasis on maintaining femininity despite temporary assumption of masculine roles. Carson McCullers's story 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,' which appeared in Harper's Bazaar in Aug 1943, portrays a woman struggling to maintain her newfound identity even after the men come back. McCullers suggests that desire is independent of heterosexual paradigms of labor, sexuality, or gender.
                                                                             
Subjects: 
World War, 1939-1945 - Women's work
Sex role in literature - 1940-1949
Working women - Portrayals, depictions, etc.
Women and war - Social aspects
People:  McCullers, Carson - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Nmd Works:  The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Short story) - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Harper's Bazaar (Periodical) - History

Title:  The Loneliest Hunter. (Carson McCullers's 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter')

Source:  The Southern Literary Journal, Spring 1992 v24 n2 p26(10).

Author:  Jan Whitt
                                                                             
Abstract:  Carson McCullers's novel 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' carries the theme of the loss of God in peoples' lives. The deaf mute character John Singer functions as an Everyman and Christ figure while he interacts with others burdened by a sense of painful loss but who try to help themselves. The book echoes McCullers's own life of alienation from homeland and God.
                                                                             
Subjects: 
American fiction - 20th century
Women authors - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
People:  McCullers, Carson - Criticism, interpretation, etc.